boob tube

Example Sentences

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Your friendly neighborhood comic and commentator marks a quarter-century of snarking and smirking on the boob tube on very special episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2018

This one gets his information from cable news shows on the boob tube, which confusingly includes a show called The Situation Room.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2017

An investigation of voter estrangement has never felt more urgent, and we’re certainly not getting one from the lacquered chatterers on the boob tube.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2016

Then, in 1983, Armstrong and the writer Jack Mingo published “The Official Couch Potato Handbook,” a mock guide, very much of its time, to slouching proudly in front of the boob tube.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 6, 2016

But anyway, Seferino Pacheco occasionally visited Onofre’s house, not to hear him play the piano—God forbid!—but simply to stare at Onofre’s miraculous boob tube, and also occasionally to listen to his friend read.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols